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Welcome to Toronto

What’s up 60 Cards readers? It is your local Toronto resident and writer Zach Lesage here and I wanted to drop some lists to share with you. I know that the metagame in Expanded is either forever changing or not changing that much, but I wanted to provide a FREE article to showcase some of the top decks that are expected this weekend. If you aren’t going to Toronto and you are instead going to Greensboro, you are in luck! Both of these tournaments are in the Expanded format which means you can get your testing started early. We provide these FREE articles to make sure that ALL readers have the BEST information available to them and we hope that you will support our site in the process. While it is true that we do have some articles that have information hidden behind a paywall, we also have a discount deal available to you right now. If you use the code Pendy3, you can save some valuable money on a subscription today. Anyways, you likely just want to peak at some lists and that is cool too, let’s jump into it!

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If you want to take a TURBO CHARGED deck to Toronto, this one will add a ZAP into your step. While this deck hasn’t seen any play in Expanded yet, it is only because this is the first major event where Team Up is legal. How ELECTRIFYING?!?!

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If you are looking to have a whale or a time or a ‘karp of a time, give this deck a whirl. This archetype had plenty of high placements at the semi-recent Dallas Regional Championships and it wasn’t hurt by the new ban list. SPLISH SPLASH.

Zoroark-GX / Garbodor Deck

Zoroark GX (SLG; 53)
is BUSTED! You heard me say it, now watch me say it again.
Zoroark GX (SLG; 53)
is BUSTED! I have never truly felt comfortable playing
Zoroark GX (SLG; 53)
, but I have put the effort in testing this deck as much as humanly possible. When it comes to my mentality of playing this deck, I don’t know if I want to be the hunter or to become the hunted. The deck focuses on using Trade, locking your opponent’s Abilities with
Garbodor (DR; 54)
, and doing typical
Zoroark GX (SLG; 53)
things. I would go into much more detail, but these kinds of decks have been dominating Expanded for well over a year now. Let’s peep out my list.

Energy (4)

Even though this deck was slightly altered because of the recent ban list, it is still a fantastic choice heading into Toronto Regionals.
Zoroark GX (SLG; 53)
decks have been absolutely dominating the Expanded format since the release of Shining Legends and I don’t expect it to change much going forward. Remember,
Exeggcute (PF; 4)
, Propagation, and Trade is a "totally not broken combo” *coughcoughsarcasmcoughcough*

Trevenant BREAK / Trevenant Deck

So you wanna play a deck where you do a bunch of disruptive stuff while your opponent sits across from you and does nothing right?!?! RIGHT?!?! Well,
Trevenant (XY; 55)
is in a weird position heading into Toronto because it has some poor matchups, but the play of the Break-blocking
Giratina (BW; 184)
is at an all time low. As other decks try to beat the top of the metagame,
Trevenant (XY; 55)
feeds on those lowly single-Prize Card attacking decks, such as
Hitmonchan (TM; 74)
, to claw its way back to the top of the metagame. Let’s check out this SPOOKY deck.

Energy (9)

If you like celebrating Halloween in the spring or if you are a fan of SPOOKY decks, take the lesser paved path and SCARE your opponents in Toronto. BOO!

See Ya in Toronto!

That’s a wrap everyone! Up next on my list of worldly destinations is Toronto, my home city. It is nice to have a major event in my backyard for once and I will be testing Expanded as much as possible until then. I didn’t really think I was going to fight for stipends this quarter, but the extra 200 CP from Collinsville really makes me want to push for it. I will have a few articles detailing the Expanded format up on the site this week so look out for those. Oh, and while you are at it, follow me on Twitter @ zlesage_pokemon.